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Hello, W A Steven would f of been friends with my Dad Kenneth Frith of Denmark road Leicester, same age, same regiment, ask him if he remebers Kim amd his sister Jean Frith.

I am around ten miles south of Leicester. Starting a website called Leicester Life. I have the appropriate UK domain name and the same for the county of Leicestershire. 😅

And soon the roads in the city will all be single lane, speedbumps every 25 yards. Cars are so evil that they must be eradicated as soon as possible. Well thats the official line, even if not actually publicised.

I know this area pretty well, I lived just off uppingham rd in Leicester. I used to cycle, then drive these roads for fun, used to walk my dog on the arboretum on shady lane. In the early 90s I was an insurance man for the co-op all along the a47 from thurnby lodge all the way out to loddington. The scenery around there is beautiful in places and I just think Leicestershire is very underrated for it's countryside.

Rana Mitter is my favourite author of WW2, no doubt

No one did anything social at all under the flyover because it was designed to be a hostile environment as possible to pedestrians and people. Rough cobbles preventing any skate boarding, high curbs with spiked brick tops to discourage walking anywhere except the small amount of area used to cross the roads. It was a brutal feeling place that felt as friendly as a serial killer. I'm glad it's gone, it was awful in many ways and looked hideous

Whilst a central route around Leicester is needed what has been done has in many ways ruined what the city could have been. Much of it cut through historic parts of Leicester and divided areas into an incoherent jumble. It was done with every consideration for a driver trying to get through or around the city and none whatsoever for the people and communities that lived there. It has been so complete in it's destruction that I don't think most people even realise what an act of vandalism most of it is. Perhaps it would have been better not to have it at all and instead rely on the outer ring. Leicester is a very small city and doesn't really warrant the in some places 6 lane inner ring road. No wonder that people think Leicester is an awful place when it has been so thoroughly vandalised by city planners, who as you pointed out at the beginning of the video acted piecemeal and with no coherent idea of what the finished article should or would look like. The people of Leicester have been utterly let down by it's leaders for over 50 years and it is difficult to see how it can ever be brought up to what it once had the potential to be

Used to drive down that old roman road in a Land Rover years ago. Got stuck a couple of times. Off roaders went there quite a bit

thank you for preserving this

my grandad worked there

Increasing traffic - and yet the railways were still closed!!!

Badly designed from start to finish.The same clowns who designed the Haymarket car park.

Brilliant video. Thanks for sharing.❤

Golden mile AKA Kyber pass

My dad is on the photo at 1:07 second in from the left kneeling ,he was with Reme and went out on the empire pride with 29 brigade. He never spoke much about what he saw and happened.

All very familiar I used to walk and cycle much of this route on pleasant summer days. I didn't know the arboretum near Evington was a prisoner of war camp. However I can just remember when it was just a field. It's some time since visiting Gaulby, it used to have a simple gravity powered clock with an hour hand and no minutes. It was driven by a rock dangling on a rope wrapped around a cylinder near the top of the tower. No idea if that is still the case.

went into the city yesterday, awful place

Cost over a million pounds to demolish , after Labour council hadnt maintained it for years , just like the iconic iron train bridge nr fosse rd south !! 😡, another part of our history wiped out .

Knocked down cus it was an convenience to the local Indian business s and there ll be more area for Indian n Pakistani celebrations etc.etc. You look after us n we ll vote for u in the next election 🧐, keep u in power .scratch our back we ll scratch urs . Another example of our past history bn wiped away by Labour 🤔🤬

Using this video for my geography a-level. Song stuck in my song man.

that's what happens when you overcrowd a city, you have to build and build, destroying the heritage of the city in the process, but it's only english heritage so why would leicester council care

Great to see the Late John Douglas. John was a great example of Corby. Coming from hard Conditions in Scotland. That generation came to Corby with a good work ethic, honesty and a determination for a better life.

I was a National Serviceman in Malaya in the late 50, and was trained by NCOs who had served in Korea. Great men! You guys that served in Korea were brilliant! You have my greatest admiration and respect.

My father was in the RNZASC... Brian (Hori) Hawthorn, Attached from 'Kiwi Section' 28th Field Regiment, Royal Engineers, to Plant Troop. He told me he and 3 others, Bruce Harkness, Don Agnue, & Bill Myles, were with the Canadians. Old man died in 2010. He did tell me a story once, about some cheeky bloody Aussies, putting a big red tail, on the white kiwi, at Kiwi Hill, Church. He used to watch MASH on TV, and laughed like crazy! When asked about it? He stated that's what it was really like most of the time. Seems he was a bit of a rogue over there, so to speak. I believe he did time in SDC. Not sure why, but i have my suspicions, thanks to a family friend who was in the 15th Field Reg RNZ Artillery.... He also told me he used to clear landmines for prisoner snatches, and put them back afterwards, as well as some transport duties. Not much else was ever said about his time in Korea, except he volunteered, that it stunk, it was either hot, or freezing cold, and the korean women were some of the ugliest women he'd ever seen. O.o?

no that country is forever cursed!

Two thirds of those who served in the Korean War,were National service men,and almost 400 were sadly killed in action.

Great video! how's about the other 7! would be great to see! x

Well done lads. Ex Vet 1951/52

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Place for plastic Scots who speak more like Londoners bulldoze the lot the Corby plastic Scots vote Tory same party ripped the heart out of that town Corby is British not one true Scots left

Thanks for that; its my old stamping ground, a lot of school-mates came from the villages. But on a bicycle the villages have a different flavour that is sadly missed in a speeded up video.

It was tolerable until it got really flooded with immigrants after Tony the Traitor was elected. Now it's not a place most want to be who were born there

Almost uninteresting

Had my first sexual experience with a girl from there, we went up to the cathedral grave yard, 1972. The nasty Malcom arcade replaced the Opera House Theatre

Beginning of the decline, I worked round the corner at Marshal and Snelgrove until 1969.

Lived there 55 years left when it became a dump

Lived there for 55 years, it became an utter dump. Harris of Granby corner at the start now Blunts shoes. Worked at Harris's and Corahs.

I enjoyed the video but couldn't finish watching it...the driving was really horrible - sorry.

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What a beautiful building, how could you put that monstrosity in it's place?

Praise Allah for these small towns and the pubs that are inclusive of all types of cultures

had to laugh et the beginning, as it was talking about the fish and quart pub whilst showing, what i knew, as brannigans, fish and quart was on the corner

What a waste of space, just more bus lanes and cycle lanes, just what's needed NOT!!

I came to Leicester in 2016. I am in this market every day. I had no idea it used to be completely different there. A while before I lived in Leicester

Probably the most interesting carbuncle Leicester has ever had. I had a fondness for it, and I did find it to be sometimes a strangely beautiful building. At least back in the days before it became very rundown. The way that sunlight hit those angles, and gave a stark contrast of some areas of the red brick glowing in daylight and others in shadow is something etched in my memory. I have a love of Brutalism. And although this building doesn't fit nicely into that category, there were certainly Brutalist aspects about it. I think by 2014, it did need to come down. But we did lose a significant portion of the overall market, with its demise. Green Dragon Square is somewhat pleasant to look at, a bit dodgy to walk through, and has potential which has not yet really been tapped into. I think I'd like to see some freestanding stalls emerge on a more ongoing basis, bring a bit of life to it. I'm keen to see the council carry out the proposed demolition of those empty shops, where Priceless Shoes used to be. It's one of the best ideas of the Reconnecting Leicester project, and will really make a good through route from St Martins, Cank Street, right through to the Town Hall. It'll help to make all that area feel part of the city centre once again, instead of just a dull backend far away from the hip and happening High Cross Centre. A lot as improved already, but that could really tie the whole thing in.

Wow, this is really quite an amazing documentation of the development of Bede Island. I remember the construction of the whole area very well, but had kind of overlooked how vast the development was. And when you factor in the other changes in the surrounding area, including the more recent ones such as the new DMU buildings, the redevelopment of the Liberty building, the removal of the Upperton Road bridge, the tragic demise of the Bowstring bridge, the new Tesco supermarket where MFI used to be, even as far out as the changes made around the Magazine, that whole end of the city has changed so much. And yet it somehow retains familiarity. Incredible to be reminded of how it all used to be.

Thanks for sharing

My uncle drove a 777 at Bardon for many years , my uncles used to drive out of Bardon for selbys

Thank you to all the men interviewed in this for sharing the memories of their experiences in Korea, as painful as some of them appeared. Respect to you all.

It would have been for the good of Civilisation if Germany never existed.!